How to choose an e-mail hosting service that works better for us and respects us? If you are using Google's Gmail or another free e-mail hosting service, then you already know that it is free of charge due to user data collection. They sell your data to anyone that is willing to pay for it. You could use a service like Protonmail which claims to be private and claims to be secure. I can't verify that but if you are happy with this, it could be the right choice for you. Another option is to self-host your e-mail. You need a fair amount of time, patience and linux server admin skills to self-host your e-mail on a linux server. There are many hosting providers out there who can offer you the barebones server, which you will then manage for your e-mail purpose ( or whatever you want ). I have used BuyVM in the past, but they were acquired by an arab company. This company looks interesting but i have never tried them. Incognet. https://incognet.io/kvm-vps If you're not a linux expert, consider contacting patriotic American citizens through your church, or at other local social occasions. If they are already working as a linux engineer or software engineer, they may be able to offer you e-mail hosting at a reasonable price by setting up a linux server on Incognet ( for example ) and managing it for you. I would expect to pay about $300 to $400 per year for this service, with support included. The last consideration that i would like to mention is the choice of e-mail client. Whether you are using Windows or Linux, always choose the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client. Don't use MS Outlook. Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client is now also available on Android. With support, you should be able to set up end to end encryption with SSL. If you need more encouragement to take the next steps to being free of tyranny, contact me. I will always be here to give advice and offer support for you, if you are serious about your desire to take positive action for a better future. For this nation. For our young people. God bless you. I welcome technical questions in the comment replies. #freedom #linux #email #privacy #surveillance PS --- dont use Gab Social Solutions. They are just re-selling GoDaddy services -- don't use Titan E-mail --- they are outsourced to India

StarZ linux firewall

Last night's happening: After years of problems just trying to watch the silly thing, suddenly DailyMotion is loading and working properly in Vivaldi for Linux. This, of course is great for two reasons: firstly, I can watch old stuff like "Science Fiction Theatre", and secondly, there are dedicated downloaders for it...

While we're at it... as a long-time Linux user, I upgraded my two 2012-vintage quad i7 Win10 laptops using Flyoobe and as it cut out a lot of the cruft at the beginning, Win11 is actually behaving itself. Except it keeps nagging me about a Microsoft Account - something I have never had... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/?brid=mNIF8q_tN-pSwmgf0_kugQ

Laptop linux leisure time

What a bizarre week... until today (Friday), SK has been enjoying an unusually generous (6-day) Chuseok holiday, so no access to either my tax accountant until next Monday or the banks at least until today (first point of order this afternoon, on the way to the office). Not only did PayPal close down my new account for no stated reason, but I then ran into trouble trying to get the banking details right for Upwork (hence the need to visit the bank). They wanted, in particular, a statement of some kind linking my name to that of the company and its address, and what a surprise, I do not receive any monthly statements at that address! All of this as the week was otherwise busy with my first real recording task, which was allegedly to take about an hour and a half but actually occupied most of Tuesday and Wednesday. It turned out, in the meantime, that PCLinuxOS had dropped their support for KDE5 and I had to uninstall it and install KDE6 (i.e. Plasma 6). That turned out to be painless, although there were a few oddities (which you expect when upgrading like this), like some icons seemed to disappear, but generally all the software, including Focusrite, Audacity and Kdenlive seemed to be working fine, and indeed they should, as only the UI software was changed. If anyone was paying attention, you can upgrade your existing Win10 machines to Win11 for free and without difficulty using Flyoobe, as I discovered after watching a video on YouTube. So I upgraded my least savoury Win10 craptop last week and then the better-quality one (reserved for company use) last Saturday. Surprise! Everything is working and no need to lose functionality as Flyoobe will install-in-place, leaving all the installed apps fully functional afterwards. I was glad about this, because otherwise I would have had to fork out for a new Win11 machine for work. The government in SK seems to have fixed everything on DirectX and Windows (including dependence on Internet Exploder) in the 1990s and nothing works on other OSes because of the need for OS-specific "security software". Just offloading some spleen here... in the absence of anything else this weekend, if I am free, I think I will get some scripts written and catch up on the cleaning...

Sixth video as shared on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6ywabk-using-linux-01-alternatives-are-good.html